The Victory Day Open 2013 will take place on 4th-18th May at the International Center of chess education RSSU in Moscow, Russia.
This is the first leg of the 2013 Cup of Moscow. The first phase of the Cup will consist of 4 open events where the players will get credit points according to their performance. In the second phase, six players with the highest scores will meet four invited players in a round robin final that will have a prize fund that amounts to 100,000 rubles.
This first leg is a 9 rounds Swiss open with a time control of 90 minutes for the whole game plus 30 seconds increments per player.
Exactly 50 players have signed up to play, including 4 International Masters and 6 FIDE Masters. IM Pavel Dvalishvili is the first seed.
Participants:
| 1 | IM | Dvalishvili Pavel S. | 2429 |
| 2 | IM | Dragomarezkij Evgeni | 2364 |
| 3 | Demianjuk Alexander | 2360 | |
| 4 | Pletnev Evgeniy | 2294 | |
| 5 | FM | Kostin Konstantin | 2292 |
| 6 | FM | Babikov Ivan | 2290 |
| 7 | FM | Apryshko Gleb | 2286 |
| 8 | IM | Losev Dmitry | 2274 |
| 9 | FM | Rozanov Pavel B. | 2269 |
| 10 | Geivondian Arman | 2264 | |
| 11 | IM | Kozlov Vladimir N | 2261 |
| 12 | Denishev Marat | 2225 | |
| 13 | Rusakov Grigorij | 2225 | |
| 14 | FM | Tchernyi Viktor | 2223 |
| 15 | Yakimenko Alexander A. | 2205 | |
| 16 | Tarasov Alexandr | 2192 | |
| 17 | Ljamin Vladimir | 2187 | |
| 18 | Dedyukhin Oleg | 2184 | |
| 19 | Kovtunenko Alexandr | 2184 | |
| 20 | Elishev Ivan | 2178 | |
| 21 | WFM | Eryshkanova Anastasiya | 2149 |
| 22 | Dogodkina Julia | 2146 | |
| 23 | Pak Alexander | 2146 | |
| 24 | Yeletsky Ivan | 2144 | |
| 25 | FM | Kapitsyn Mark | 2109 |
| 26 | Anfinogenov Artem | 2081 | |
| 27 | Lednev Valeriy | 2074 | |
| 28 | WFM | Vasenina Anna | 2060 |
| 29 | Martynov Vladimir | 2060 | |
| 30 | Potseluev Sergey | 2047 | |
| 31 | Nikulin Ilia | 2028 | |
| 32 | Polischuk Anatoly | 2002 | |
| 33 | Aliekhin Vladislav | 1994 | |
| 34 | Grigoriev Sergey | 1971 | |
| 35 | Savchenko Andrey | 1965 | |
| 36 | Smirnov Timofey | 1964 | |
| 37 | Leite Ernst | 1947 | |
| 38 | Zubkov Vsevolod | 1929 | |
| 39 | Novikov Sergey M. | 1915 | |
| 40 | Kashirsky Eugeny D. | 1913 | |
| 41 | Egorov Egor | 1898 | |
| 42 | Sorokin Adones | 1888 | |
| 43 | CM | Pak Matvey | 1887 |
| 44 | Baigushev Alexandr | 1751 | |
| 45 | Minko Dmitry | 1677 | |
| 46 | Dogadushkin Sergey | 1650 | |
| 47 | Buchenkov Igor | 1509 | |
| 48 | Shein Andrey | 1444 | |
| 49 | Ajrapetov Andrey | 0 | |
| 50 | Pautova Darya | 0 | |
